Marvel Comics Solicitations for June 2014

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Original Sin heats up just in time for summer.

By Jesse Schedeen

Marvel have released their solicitations for June 2014. The flood of tie-ins for Original Sin looks to be starting that month, but we've found that having more Mark Waid-penned comics is never a bad thing.

New Series

Figment #1

Savage Hulk #1

New Creative Teams

Craig Kyle and Chris Yost on Amazing X-Men

Frank Tieri and Felix Ruiz on Savage Wolverine

Steve Lieber is writing and drawing Superior Foes of Spider-Man #14

Observations

Is the casual reader supposed to know the difference between Original Sin, Original Sin #3.1-3.5, and Original Sins?

Brace yourselves - it appears Hawkguy will be ending soon.

An Oz Omnibus? Sign us up.

ORIGINAL SIN #3 (of 8)

JASON AARON (W) • MIKE DEODATO (A)

Cover by JULIAN TOTINO TEDESCO

Variant cover by Gabriele Dell’otto

VARIANT COVER BY ARTHUR ADAMS

TEASER VARIANT BY STEPHANIE HANS

ANSWERS AT ALL COSTS.

• In the wake of last issue’s explosion of secrets, the heroes of the Marvel U are reeling, leaving Nick Fury to stand alone.

• He Who Holds the Eye is still on the run, and now we meet his boss, the villainous mastermind behind the raid on the Watcher’s lair.

• And in deep space, the Winter Soldier leads a team that uncovers the most bizarre murder of all.

32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

ORIGINAL SIN #4 (of 8)

JASON AARON (W) • MIKE DEODATO (A)

Cover by JULIAN TOTINO TEDESCO

Variant cover by Gabriele Dell’otto

VARIANT COVER BY ARTHUR ADAMS

TEASER VARIANT BY BUTCH GUICE

TRUST NO ONE. NOT EVEN YOURSELF.

• One hero goes rogue. Another loses his head.

• Dr. Strange and the Punisher team up for a daring raid.

• And all trails now lead to one suspect.

• But he... how is that even possible?

32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

FANTASTIC FOUR #6

JAMES ROBINSON (W)

LEONARD KIRK (A/C)

EVERYBODY HAS ONE...

32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

Bonus Digital Edition Included

ALL-NEW INVADERS #6

JAMES ROBINSON (W)

Marc Laming (A)

Cover by GREG LAND

EVERYBODY HAS ONE...

32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

Bonus Digital Edition Included

NOVA #18

GERRY DUGGAN (W)

DAVID BALDEON (A)

Cover by PACO MEDINA

teaser variant also available

EVERYBODY HAS ONE...

32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

Bonus Digital Edition Included

ORIGINAL SINS #1-2 (of 5)

EVERYBODY HAS ONE...

32 PGS. (EACH)/Rated T+ …$3.99 (EACH)

Bonus Digital Edition Included

ORIGINAL SIN #3.1

MARK WAID (W)

MARK BAGLEY (A)

Cover by JG JONES

Teaser Variant by JG JONES

EVERYBODY HAS ONE...

32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

Bonus Digital Edition Included

ORIGINAL SIN #3.2

KIERON GILLEN (W)

LUKE ROSS (A)

Cover by JG JONES

EVERYBODY HAS ONE...

32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

Bonus Digital Edition Included

ORIGINAL SIN #3.3

MARK WAID (W)

MARK BAGLEY (A)

Cover by JG JONES

EVERYBODY HAS ONE...

32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

Bonus Digital Edition Included

ORIGINAL SIN #3.4

KIERON GILLEN (W)

LUKE ROSS (A)

Cover by JG JONES

EVERYBODY HAS ONE...

32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

Bonus Digital Edition Included

AVENGERS #31

JONATHAN HICKMAN (W) • LEINIL FRANCIS YU (A/C)

ORIGINAL SIN tie-in!

• Propelled fifty years into the future, the Avengers come face-to-face with the legacy of their actions!

• In 1972, they banded together to fight what couldn’t be fought alone - as the Mighty Avengers!

• This issue, Luke Cage confronts his father - to learn the secrets of the Avengers that time forgot!

32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

DEADPOOL #30

GERRY DUGGAN & BRIAN POSEHN (W) • JOHN LUCAS (A)

Cover by MARK BROOKS

ORIGINAL SIN tie-in!

• Deadpool has recruited some GROOVY help in fighting vampires!

• Meanwhile: the secrets of Wade’s past that Preston learned lead her to a surprise!

32 PGS./Parental Advisory …$3.99

SAVAGE HULK #1

ALAN DAVIS (W/A/C)

Variant by JOHN CASSADAY

75th Anniversary Variant by ALEX ROSS

SKETCH Variant by ALEX ROSS

AN ALL-NEW SERIES!!!

Alan Davis writes and draws a blockbuster story pitting the HULK against… the X-MEN!?!?! Learn the startling secret of Professor Xavier’s connection to Bruce Banner! Guest starring the Leader and the Abomination!

32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

DEXTER DOWN UNDER #5 (OF 5)

JEFF LINDSAY (W) • DALIBOR TALAJIC (A)

Cover by MICHAEL DEL MUNDO

THE CHILLING CONCLUSION OF DEXTER’S INTERNATIONAL ADVENTURE –

WRITTEN BY HIS CREATOR JEFF LINDSAY!

• Dexter Morgan, the serial killer of serial killers, is on the trail of a new murderer…but he’s away from his cool Miami beat and feeling the Australian heat!

• When everything is flipped Down Under, Dexter isn’t the hunter—he’s the prey!

• Not only is Dexter being stalked, he’s trapped in a private big game preserve—where humans are the prize! Will this one end with a bang?

32 PGS./Parental Advisory …3.99

MIRACLEMAN #7

THE ORIGINAL WRITER (W) • ALAN DAVIS & CHUCK AUSTEN (A)

Cover by ALAN DAVIS

Variant cover by ALAN DAVIS

Variant cover by RONNIE DEL CARMEN

Variant cover by ALEX MALEEV

• Miracleman and Mr. Cream descend into the jungles of Paraguay where the battle with Gargunza begins!

• Gargunza’s shocking intentions for Liz Moran and her unborn child are revealed!

• Dive into a steampunk fantasy story exploring the never-before-revealed origin of the inventor known as Dreamfinder, and how one little spark of inspiration created a dragon called Figment.

• What is the Academy Scientifica-Lucidus? Who is Blarion Mercurial? What is the Integrated Mesmonic Spark Convertor? Find out as we give a Marvel spin to Epcot® Theme Park’s mind-expanding attraction, Journey Into Imagination!

• The Incursions aren’t the only horrors threatening to end the world!

• DOCTOR STRANGE has faced the impossible time and again as an Avenger and the Sorcerer Supreme, but when he is called upon to fulfill an old debt to an enclave of techno-monks high in the Himalayas, even the good doctor may be beyond his limits!

• Written by acclaimed young writer Frank J. Barbiere (Five Ghosts, The White Suits) and illustrated by the illustrious Marco Rudy (Swamp Thing, Marvel Knights: Spider-Man), this oversized annual is one you won’t want to miss!

40 PGS./Rated T+ …$4.99

AVENGERS WORLD #7 & 8

NICK SPENCER (W) • ISSUE #7 - Stefano Caselli (A)

ISSUE #8 - MARCO CHECCHETTO (A)

ISSUE #7 - cover by MARK BROOKS

ISSUE #8 - cover by GABRIELE DELL’OTTO

ISSUE #7 –

• What is SPEAR? Who are The Ascendant?

• In the face of an ancient evil, a rising super-power answers the call.

32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

ISSUE #8 –

• The City of the Dead prepares to rise.

• Only Nightmask and a group of lost heroes can save us.

32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

NEW AVENGERS #19 & 20

JONATHAN HICKMAN (W) • VALERIO SCHITI (A)

Cover by DUSTIN WEAVER

ISSUE #19 –

• It’s the battle you didn’t know you wanted to see—until now! As the New Avengers take on the combined power of the Great Society—and only a single parallel Earth can survive!

32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

ISSUE #20 –

• How far is Doctor Strange willing to go to protect the Earth from the Great Society? Too far…

32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

AVENGERS UNDERCOVER #5 & 6

DENNIS HOPELESS (w)

Issue #5 - KEV WALKER (A)

Issue #6 - timothy green ii (A)

CoverS by Francesco Mattina

ISSUE #5 – “DESCENT” PART 5 (OF 5): WHICH HEROES WILL JOIN THE MASTERS OF EVIL?

• Baron Zemo has made our young superhumans an offer they can’t refuse—or can they?

• Who agrees to join the Masters of Evil—and who goes rogue?

32 PGS./Rated T+ …$2.99

ISSUE #6 – DEATH LOCKET’S FIELD TRIP =

KILL CAPTAIN AMERICA!

• A done-in-one focus on Death Locket: Half-girl, half-cyborg…all assassin!

• What will Death Locket do: blow her cover—and seal her doom—by refusing to shoot Cap…or save her life by killing a Living Legend?

32 PGS./Rated T+ …$2.99

SECRET AVENGERS #4

ALES KOT (W)

MICHAEL WALSH (A)

Cover by TRADD MOORE

VARIANT COVER BY MICHAEL WALSH

“INTERNATIONAL INCIDENT”

• The Fury reappears inside the Kowloon Walled City -- which is deep inside the Chinese territory. Who you gonna call?

• No-one, but Nick Fury, Hawkeye and a bunch of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents come anyway. Problems? You bet. The Kowloon gangs want The Fury as well.

• On the Helicarrier, someone dies. The ground is not steady. Things escalate.

32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

UNCANNY AVENGERS #21

RICK REMENDER (W) • DANIEL ACUNA (A/C)

AVENGE THE EARTH Finale!

• This is it! The conclusion to an epic two years in the making and rest assured nothing will ever be the same again!

• The final battle will not be with the enemy--it will be with ourselves.

• In our darkest hour The Avengers Unity Squad unite entirely and the fate of the seven futures decided!

• After the mind-blowing reveal at the end of the first issue, miles life will NEVER be the same again.

• With SHIELD gone, the biggest villain in SPIDER-MAN history is out and nothing can stop him.

• Miles has made a huge choice about the woman he loves. Will he live to regret it?

32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

ULTIMATE FF #3

JOSHUA HALE FIALKOV (W) • MARIO GUEVARA (A)

Cover by GREG LAND

Variant Cover by CHRISTIAN WARD

“PALACE OF THE BRINE” (PART 2 of 2)

• Invasion from a parallel Earth!

• A new ATLANTIS will rise!

• Will NAMOR massacre his own people to survive?

32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

SPIDER-MAN SPECTACULAR #1

JOE CARAMAGNA (W)

SCOTT KOBLISH, TIM SEELEY, CORY HAMSCHER & JACOPO CAMAGNI (A)

Cover by PATRICK SCHERBERGER

• Four titanic tales set in Spider-Man’s past!

• Young Peter Parker has mastered his newfound spider-powers, but how will being the Amazing Spider-Man affect his personal life?

• Can Peter keep his secret identity from Aunt May, and his high-school crush Liz Allan?

• Spider-Man’s luck is about to get worse, as an experimental serum transforms millionaire Harry Osborn into the villainous Green Goblin!

• Spider-Man soon finds himself locked in a battle high above the streets — with Aunt May caught in the middle! Can Spidey triumph with a little help from his new fan club?

• When Kraven the Hunter puts Spider-Man in his sights, can the webbed wonder save himself from becoming the catch of the day?

64 PGS./All Ages …$4.99

THE SUPERIOR FOES OF SPIDER-MAN #14

STEVE LIEBER (W/A)

Cover by KRIS ANKA

• A year of duplicity and double crossing leads to this – who will live, who will die, who will get the head of Silvermane?

32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #3

DAN SLOTT (W) • HUMBERTO RAMOS (A/C)

Variant Cover by Tim Sale

• Because of her last encounter with Spider-Man, Felicia Hardy lost everything. Now the Black Cat

is back, and she doesn’t want any apologies or excuses... just REVENGE.

• Plus: Spidey teams up with a real hero, fireman Pedro Olivera... who just happens to be the current boyfriend to one Mary Jane Watson.

• And... more on you-know-who from the opening scene back in ASM #1. You know who we’re talking about. Yeah, that’s right. You better not miss this one!

32 PGS./Rated T …$3.99

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #1.2

DAN SLOTT (W) • RÁMON PÉREZ (A)

Cover by ALEX ROSS

Variant Cover by ARTHUR ADAMS

ALEX Ross Sketch variant also AVAILABLE

• J. Jonah’s Jameson’s crusade against Spider-Man kicks into overdrive! He warned us! He told us that kids might try to emulate Spider-Man! And he was RIGHT!

• Meet CLASH, New York’s newest menace. He may be Spidey’s biggest fan, but he’s about to become one of his worst enemies.

• Wanted by the cops, turned away by the Fantastic Four, his grades are slipping, and he still hasn’t figured out this whole crime-fighting-thing. Pete’s not a hero... not yet... but he’ll get there. Somehow.

32 PGS./Rated T …$3.99

IRON MAN #27 & 28

KIERON GILLEN (W) • JOE BENNETT (A)

Issue #27 Cover by CHRISTIAN WARD

Issue #28 Cover by IN-HYUK LEE

RINGS OF THE MANDARIN COMES TO A STARTLING CONCLUSION!!!

• The MANDARINS rampage reaches its climax. Who can TONY STARK count as an ally?

• The TRUTH behind the Mandarins.

• Can Tony’s Fellowship manage to defeat the Lords of the Rings?

32 PGS. (EACH)/Rated T+ …$3.99 (EACH)

INHUMAN #3

CHARLES SOULE (W) • JOE MADUREIRA (A/C)

VARIANT COVER BY ED MCGUINNESS

• The first arc of Inhuman climaxes in the battle of Medusa vs. Lash!

• Uncover the secret history of an ancient branch of Inhumans!

• A new Inhuman named Flint sees his world fall apart before his eyes!

32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

WINTER SOLDIER: THE BITTER MARCH #5 (of 5)

RICK REMENDER (W) • ROLAND BOSCHI (A)

Cover by ANDREW ROBINSON

• The Winter Solder is dead--long live Bucky!

• The conclusion, the terrible decision that will forever change Ran Shen!

• Witness the birth of the man who will one day destroy Steve Rogers! Enter: The Iron Nail!

32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

CAPTAIN AMERICA #21

RICK REMENDER (W) • NIC KLEIN (A/C)

• This is it, the one you don’t want to miss: The beginning of the end of Steve Rogers.!

• The Iron Nail breaks Captain America!

• Steve Rogers lays a final sacrifice on the altar of freedom.

32 PGS./Rated T …$3.99

LOKI: AGENT OF ASGARD #5

AL EWING (W) • LEE GARBETT (A)

Cover by JENNY FRISON

• Nobody else would have done it - because nobody else would have the nerve! Loki’s crew comes together to crack the deepest dungeons of Asgardia itself!

• It’s the ultimate caper - but is there one plot twist too many for even the God of Trickery to handle?

• This movie rated :( for tears before bedtime.

32 PGS./Rated T+ …$2.99

THOR: GOD OF THUNDER #23

JASON AARON (W) • Esad Ribic (A)

cover by Agustin Alessio

THE LAST DAYS OF MIDGARD Part Five

• Thor’s war to save the earth comes to its epic conclusion. In the far future, King Thor makes a dark decision that may save the day, but at what cost?

• And in present-day Broxton, Oklahoma, Thor makes a final stand against the forces of ROXXON, but not even a god can save everyone.